Sam
2010-12-23 03:34:28 UTC
Filtering/blacklisting filter food:
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This appears to be some kind of an outsourced headhunter spam-for-hire
mailing list outfit. In my experience, their "services" get used by
bottom-feeding headhunters who do simple keyword searches on other, real job
sites; but they don't even bother to read the individual profile of everyone
who comes up in the search; rather they just upload their search results to
this outfit, then start spamming all their open job reqs to their
jobdiva-run mailing list.
I suspect a possibility that this outfit may actually be doing proxy
searches on other, real job sites, itself (that likely to be prohibited by
their TOS) and suck in the contact details, but that's not an important
detail.
Each spam run from Jobdiva has an opt-out link, but that appears to opt you
out of a single headhunter's spam list, only.
So far I've now been harassed by about a dozen completely unrelated
headhunters, located in various Bumfuck, middle-of-nowheres; who have no
clue about the geographical characteristics of my metropolitan home base;
who appear to be simply feeding off generic, bland, HR portals of huge
corporate bureaucracies; who have no clue as to the hiring business itself;
they just pull various open job reqs from the corporate HR databases; they
then simply scour various job boards and do basic keyword searches; they
completely ignore the profile of anyone who comes up in the keyword search,
including where they live, and where they're looking for jobs; they never
even read the CVs they pull up; they then proceed to simply add the email
addresses to their jobdiva-managed mailing list, and then proceed and spam
their every job req, going from that point forward, to this outsourced
mailing list.
I've finally had enough, and I've gotten tired of it, and all of the Jobdiva
spam I'm getting is now drowing out the real recruiters, who know how to do
their job, who actually bother to contact only those people whose background
and what they're looking for seems to be appropriate for whatever open spot
they're trying to fil;, and because they know what they're doing they have
no use whatsoever for this rent-a-spam service.
I have no particular bias against headhunters, in general. I've conducted
very profitable business with selected, experienced ones, for several
decades now. They made me a lot of money for me, and they made a little bit
of money off me, too. It's a pleasure doing business with the ones who are,
truly, professionals. And that's true for any profession, not just this one.
But the stuff that I'm getting coming out of this domain is utter crap,
plain and simple. I should not be getting it. I just realized, today, that
if someone actually bothered to read the first paragraph of what I posted to
various job boards, I would not've gotten a single mail from jobdiva, to
date.
I became suspicious when I noticed that the links from nearly all the shit
I've been getting for several weeks now ends up at very similar opt-out
page, that differ only in the headhunter logo. I then went back to my trash
can, pulled up these emails, and, whoa, all the crap from all these
different shitheads is coming from the same outfit! Bingo.
This email source has now earned a permanent spot on my shitlist.
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Received: from batch153 ([10.10.130.153]) by jobdivabk.com (L-Soft HDMail 2.1);
Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:02:37 -0500
This appears to be some kind of an outsourced headhunter spam-for-hire
mailing list outfit. In my experience, their "services" get used by
bottom-feeding headhunters who do simple keyword searches on other, real job
sites; but they don't even bother to read the individual profile of everyone
who comes up in the search; rather they just upload their search results to
this outfit, then start spamming all their open job reqs to their
jobdiva-run mailing list.
I suspect a possibility that this outfit may actually be doing proxy
searches on other, real job sites, itself (that likely to be prohibited by
their TOS) and suck in the contact details, but that's not an important
detail.
Each spam run from Jobdiva has an opt-out link, but that appears to opt you
out of a single headhunter's spam list, only.
So far I've now been harassed by about a dozen completely unrelated
headhunters, located in various Bumfuck, middle-of-nowheres; who have no
clue about the geographical characteristics of my metropolitan home base;
who appear to be simply feeding off generic, bland, HR portals of huge
corporate bureaucracies; who have no clue as to the hiring business itself;
they just pull various open job reqs from the corporate HR databases; they
then simply scour various job boards and do basic keyword searches; they
completely ignore the profile of anyone who comes up in the keyword search,
including where they live, and where they're looking for jobs; they never
even read the CVs they pull up; they then proceed to simply add the email
addresses to their jobdiva-managed mailing list, and then proceed and spam
their every job req, going from that point forward, to this outsourced
mailing list.
I've finally had enough, and I've gotten tired of it, and all of the Jobdiva
spam I'm getting is now drowing out the real recruiters, who know how to do
their job, who actually bother to contact only those people whose background
and what they're looking for seems to be appropriate for whatever open spot
they're trying to fil;, and because they know what they're doing they have
no use whatsoever for this rent-a-spam service.
I have no particular bias against headhunters, in general. I've conducted
very profitable business with selected, experienced ones, for several
decades now. They made me a lot of money for me, and they made a little bit
of money off me, too. It's a pleasure doing business with the ones who are,
truly, professionals. And that's true for any profession, not just this one.
But the stuff that I'm getting coming out of this domain is utter crap,
plain and simple. I should not be getting it. I just realized, today, that
if someone actually bothered to read the first paragraph of what I posted to
various job boards, I would not've gotten a single mail from jobdiva, to
date.
I became suspicious when I noticed that the links from nearly all the shit
I've been getting for several weeks now ends up at very similar opt-out
page, that differ only in the headhunter logo. I then went back to my trash
can, pulled up these emails, and, whoa, all the crap from all these
different shitheads is coming from the same outfit! Bingo.
This email source has now earned a permanent spot on my shitlist.